In the late 1970's in New Zealand, The General Post Office (at that time, Telecom was included) compared transferring data about toll calls via a dedicated line, or disks in the back of a car. The car win hands down! I was in the IT department then.
Consider the impact of a moderately sized meteor hitting the Yellowstone Caldera - the combination would be far more deadly than a much larger meteor hitting somewhere else.
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The transfer of torque to the wheels is much more efficient with the energy transferred via electricity than via a mechanical drive shaft! You may well save a quite a bit in this alone...
If you use the proper software, using X-Windows over a network is okay.
I use the 'nx' package which intelligently caches X window's requests. It needs to be installed on both machines.
As an example, my workstation is 'jupiter', and I run big applications on my development machine 'saturn' (faster processors, more RAM, and RAID-6). In a terminal on jupiter I type in:
nxssh -Y saturn and from the terminal I can run an X-windows applications like Eclipse which has quite intensive GUI usage. Performance is quite reasonable.
Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common Python-based interface.
Actually, baths are bad. Specifically if you wash your skin, you remove the protective layer of oil - this is a fact.
Recently, a few years ago, they paid a bunch of students not to wash for a few months. They monitored them quite closely. After about 6 weeks or so, the skin stabilized in terms of pH etc..
In a "confrontation" about the time Malaysia was formed, British and New Zealand soldiers made many patrols. It was found that the NZers had a higher percentage of their soldiers reporting sick, but not because they wanted to avoid going on patrol (British officers had very high regards for the courage and endurance of the NZers). It was put down to New Zealanders generally being used to cleaner environments than the British soldiers.
I think that any really large scale orbital structures will be built from lunar material.
Above some limit (10K tonnes?) it would make more sense to get the bulk of the material from the Moon, rather than lift it up from Earth's gravity well.
Another reason to press ahead with Moon colony ideas - even if people only spend 6 months or so at a time there. Most of the work wil be automated. Not to mention the science benefits.
Actually it was originally referred to as that god damned particle, but the physicist who was asked to right a book about was not allowed to use the words god damned in case it offended someone...
So if you like, call it the god damned particle...
How about for that extra special present, where money is no problem, an upper garment for a sportswoman with multiple processor/sensor/activator nodes on each fibre, to control the tension to cope with the local forces in the material, as she is hitting a tennis ball with her racket and her upper body is rotating.
The woman would feel more comfortable and look more elegant.
Of course, the porosity of the material will be controlled to allow optimum air transfer and heat dissipation, so thermal balance will be far better than today's clothes.
For health monitoring, some nodes will be reporting to a main node on the garment that will communicate with her designated sports professional health system.
Naturally all nodes will have their own unique IPv6 address.
With molecular size components, the above scenario is but a few years away - 20 years at the outside for common commercial availability for the up market buyer...
On the same hardware: Linux is faster and more secure than any operating system Microsoft can offer!
Linux also runs Firefox and OpenOfice, which provide 95+% of what most people would ever use a netbook style computer for. However, there are many other types of software available to the Linux user.
If you look at the prefix, then the following definition seems the more logical: million is a million to the power of 1 billion is a million to the power of 2 trillion is a million to the power of 3 etc.
Not sure how the USA got into insisting that: million is a thousand to the power of 2 billion is a thousand to the power of 3 trillion is a thousand to the power of 4 etc.
I cut my teeth on 32 bit assembler on an ICL 4/72 mainframe (similar to an IBM 360 in architecture) with a massive one Meg of main memory.
I think I had most fun with 32 the bit ARM II Risc processor, but I found 8 bit 6502 rather tedious.
I have also done COBOL, FORTRAN, and C, amongst several other computer languages.
But my preferred language is now Java, preferably 1.6 or later (1.7 is still in development).
Why Java? Because I can concentrate more on the programming logic side rather than worry so much about memory resources, it has a lot of library support, and it runs on most real operating systems as well as those marketed by Microsoft.
My preferred development environment is Linux, and I started programming a couple of years before Unix was invented - yes, I'm over 50.
Slashdot Mirror
(one drop of water) + (one drop of water) = (one drop of water)
and sometimes
1 + 1 = 0
Depends what, and how, you are adding!
In the late 1970's in New Zealand, The General Post Office (at that time, Telecom was included) compared transferring data about toll calls via a dedicated line, or disks in the back of a car. The car win hands down! I was in the IT department then.
Consider the impact of a moderately sized meteor hitting the Yellowstone Caldera - the combination would be far more deadly than a much larger meteor hitting somewhere else.
"The batter pushes currency through the wire."
"The battery pushes current through the wire."
For those people, who are tired or just lazy...
I should write out 1000 times "I should spend more time reading carefully", rather making sure the formatting is correct... :-(
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Also...
The transfer of torque to the wheels is much more efficient with the energy transferred via electricity than via a mechanical drive shaft! You may well save a quite a bit in this alone...
Hmm...
If you use the proper software, using X-Windows over a network is okay.
I use the 'nx' package which intelligently caches X window's requests. It needs to be installed on both machines.
As an example, my workstation is 'jupiter', and I run big applications on my development machine 'saturn' (faster processors, more RAM, and RAID-6). In a terminal on jupiter I type in:
nxssh -Y saturn
and from the terminal I can run an X-windows applications like Eclipse which has quite intensive GUI usage. Performance is quite reasonable.
Using the rules specified in the parent post: try working out how the following pattern will turn out (without simulating it on a computer!).
OXX
XXO
OXO
where:
X - a live cell
O - an empty cell
Should be very easy, as the rules are SO SIMPLE, right???
see the R-pentomino in:
http://www.math.com/students/wonders/life/life.html
COMPUTE X = (A - B) / (A + B).
Is legal in COBOL, at least it was in the late 70's when I was a COBOL programmer!
Well I am using Firefox 3.5 on a Linux box with dual 64 bit cores (AMD4200+), and 3.5 is more than twice the speed of 3.0.0.11 when rendering the URL ftp://fedora.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora/linux/development/x86_64/os/Packages - Firefox 3 took about 77 seconds.
So if it is not using a JIT, then I'm even more impressed!
http://www.sagemath.org/
Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common Python-based interface.
ARM = "Acorn Risc Machine"
Actually, baths are bad. Specifically if you wash your skin, you remove the protective layer of oil - this is a fact.
Recently, a few years ago, they paid a bunch of students not to wash for a few months. They monitored them quite closely. After about 6 weeks or so, the skin stabilized in terms of pH etc..
In a "confrontation" about the time Malaysia was formed, British and New Zealand soldiers made many patrols. It was found that the NZers had a higher percentage of their soldiers reporting sick, but not because they wanted to avoid going on patrol (British officers had very high regards for the courage and endurance of the NZers). It was put down to New Zealanders generally being used to cleaner environments than the British soldiers.
-Gavin
Hmm...
The energy harvested from the wind and converted into Electricity and then back into heat via toasters etc. - will have zero nett impact!
Because, if the wind was not conveted into electricity, the wind would have heated the Earth via friction anyhow!
I think that any really large scale orbital structures will be built from lunar material.
Above some limit (10K tonnes?) it would make more sense to get the bulk of the material from the Moon, rather than lift it up from Earth's gravity well.
Another reason to press ahead with Moon colony ideas - even if people only spend 6 months or so at a time there. Most of the work wil be automated. Not to mention the science benefits.
"It seems it's not just Microsoft that have spotted a good opportunity to distribute their software ..."
I clicked on the link http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09&tid=95, indicated above with bold italic, and got the text Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
What's happening here???
Actually it was originally referred to as that god damned particle, but the physicist who was asked to right a book about was not allowed to use the words god damned in case it offended someone...
So if you like, call it the god damned particle...
How about for that extra special present, where money is no problem, an upper garment for a sportswoman with multiple processor/sensor/activator nodes on each fibre, to control the tension to cope with the local forces in the material, as she is hitting a tennis ball with her racket and her upper body is rotating.
The woman would feel more comfortable and look more elegant.
Of course, the porosity of the material will be controlled to allow optimum air transfer and heat dissipation, so thermal balance will be far better than today's clothes.
For health monitoring, some nodes will be reporting to a main node on the garment that will communicate with her designated sports professional health system.
Naturally all nodes will have their own unique IPv6 address.
With molecular size components, the above scenario is but a few years away - 20 years at the outside for common commercial availability for the up market buyer...
On the same hardware: Linux is faster and more secure than any operating system Microsoft can offer!
Linux also runs Firefox and OpenOfice, which provide 95+% of what most people would ever use a netbook style computer for. However, there are many other types of software available to the Linux user.
If you look at the prefix, then the following definition seems the more logical:
million is a million to the power of 1
billion is a million to the power of 2
trillion is a million to the power of 3
etc.
Not sure how the USA got into insisting that:
million is a thousand to the power of 2
billion is a thousand to the power of 3
trillion is a thousand to the power of 4
etc.
The American definition seems rather stupid.
Eeek! (to quote a famous Librarian)
That "Anonymous Coward" was me, forgot I was not logged in as me when I posted the immediate parent!
I have just asked my friend to have a look.
-Nivag
Hmm...
I cut my teeth on 32 bit assembler on an ICL 4/72 mainframe (similar to an IBM 360 in architecture) with a massive one Meg of main memory.
I think I had most fun with 32 the bit ARM II Risc processor, but I found 8 bit 6502 rather tedious.
I have also done COBOL, FORTRAN, and C, amongst several other computer languages.
But my preferred language is now Java, preferably 1.6 or later (1.7 is still in development).
Why Java? Because I can concentrate more on the programming logic side rather than worry so much about memory resources, it has a lot of library support, and it runs on most real operating systems as well as those marketed by Microsoft.
My preferred development environment is Linux, and I started programming a couple of years before Unix was invented - yes, I'm over 50.
-Nivag
Sorry, I'd meant to add a smiley or some such...
"Do this for 40 years, and you'll be just as sharp at 50 as you were at 20."
Hmm...
50 - 40 = 10
20 + 40 = 60
Maybe I'm letting precision getting in the way of getting point?